Jeff Goldblum Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Anjelica Huston is a very, very special woman. She's very sweet to me; we had lovely times.

At the end of the movie all of us have this shared redemption.

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.

How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

I don't know if I'll ever get married again. I've been married twice, once for nine years and then for five years.

I love being in the water. We used to vacation in Atlantic City and smelled the waves, smelled the salt. You couldn't get me out of there. I loved to body surf.

I love Independence Day and I love Roland Emmerich. He's very special.

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.

I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.

I love working with Steven Spielberg.

I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.

I think different people see me different ways. Everybody's got their own perception.

I thought, this is a good sign. There's something perfect and right about this.

I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips.

I was thinking, Why am I doing this, do I really want to go... it was unexpected thing after another, but I made a lot of friends.

I watched some Joseph Campbell interviews the other day-the world of mystery, our mysterious connection that we have amongst us-that's beyond words.

I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.

I've read that Gina's pining for me. We are good friends and she's a wonderful person and a wonderful actress.

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about.

It was a cruise, and I had never been on a cruise before. One night it was a 7, 8, 9, 10 course Russian dinner.

It was a tricky movie to make because half the time the dinosaurs were there, 15 guys working them, one doing the tongue, the blinking, all the different bits so that for all the world you felt there was a dinosaur there.

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

It's an important fact of life, war.

It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.

It's mysterious what attracts you to a person.

It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.

Let's get this movable feast underway.

Many things are written into the script, the lengths of people's cuffs, the colors.

My first experience on a boat was on Lake Erie when I was very young. I was the only one to catch a fish. I wet the bed, and I think it had something to do with me being in the water. I woke up humiliated.

My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

No pay, no Goldblum. That's it.

On a long movie set, it's psychologically rough waters and people are bumping into each other and quarters are close.

Originally in the T Rex attack, they had Jeff running away from the dinosaur, like the other guy who gets eaten in the toilet. But we did this different version were I got to be heroic.

People work harder when conditions are worse.

Richard Attenborough is the guy in Jurassic Park. David Attenborough is a guy famous for his nature programs.

The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

There was a big cruise that I went on. Paul Allen would rent out a big cruise ship, and we'd go to Alaska in them.

These war correspondents are attracted to go to these places, and they feel nobly enough that people should know the facts as close as possible.

This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.

Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world.

Well, you know, I'm very easily stirred.

What arrived in the mail was kinda a small suitcase, a leather thing, and you open it up and kinda take more things out of it, paper and stuff, please come to the thing with brochures and stuff.

When we made The Right Stuff, I was on an aircraft carrier. Those things can smell. I don't like the smell so much.

You never know in a movie if it's going to be a sequel, but right now I'm proud of what we produced.

You're not an imposter, are you? What have you done with the BBC fellow?

You've gotten invitation from fancy friends and everyone tries to outdo the other.

Trivia

He can wiggle his ears one at a time.

His role in “Mister Frost” earned him the Best Actor Award at the 1990 Catalonian International Film Festival.

His first motion picture role was in the Charles Bronson film “Death Wish”.

His breakthrough movie role was in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall”.

He was engaged to “Jurassic Park” co-star Laura Dern for several years but they never married.

In 1987, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films gave him a Best Actor Saturn Award for his performance as the title character in “The Fly”.

His zodiac sign is Libra.

In 1983, he won the Star of Tomorrow Award. The Award was presented by the National Association of Theatre Owners.

He married Geena Davis on November 1, 1987, and they divorced on October 17, 1990

He lent his voice to Apple Computer for the iMac and iBook commercials

In 1999 he was a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival.

His height is 6'4?" (1.94 m).

Goldblum studied acting at New York City's prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse under Sanford Meisner.

Goldblum Is the voice behind the iMac/iBook commercials for Apple Computer.